In our circles here on Nostr, saying that you will be rich by staying humble and stacking sats is not exactly breaking news. You know it works (and you'll be wealthy in 10 years) or at least you believe it works because you know people who you trust believe in it. If I go out of Nostr to the people who surround me, I see a behaviour that seems to say "it's not for me". People find comfort in having missed the boat. Because bonding it comes with the responsibilities for learning about and buying Bitcoin. My message to these people: be honest with yourself. Admit that you don't want to be weathly, after all (not judging). Or else get going; most of Nostr is here to help.

So much good stuff is happening for Bitcoin and the people who believe in it, the people who built it, and the people who are building it. It's incredible. This is very inspiring and a fantastic start to the year.

Downloaded the latest @blockstream green wallet (2.0.17) to a MacBook Pro (Ventura 13.7.2) from blockstream.green. The software crashed immediately upon startup (I tried it on two different laptops). Then, I resorted to the previous version (2.0.16), which worked as expected. I hope that no newcoiners will experience the same.

My goal for Q1 is to ramp up my computing setup: put redundant components in place for instant fail-over switching, and create more capacity for Bitcoin, lightning, cashu, and nostr. Everything without asking for permission and the certainty that Bitcoin will not fail should I screw up any of the config or wiring. The power of de-centralization goes goes far for all of us.

"Why This Hope Matters: This open-minded perspective is not just comforting—it fuels curiosity and a desire to explore the unknown. The future of life and intelligence in the universe might be far more extraordinary than we can currently imagine." - ChatGPT

intelligent people are sometimes hard to understand because for them, everything that is easy to understand seems obvious and thus not worth mentioning - leaving humorous or higher-order observations; as can been seen here on nostr 🐬

"What this actually means is that no one is really in charge of bazaar-style FOSS projects. A project’s leader cannot steer the project in an unpopular direction without losing the developers he so crucially needs. Under the bazaar model, software is in a very real way controlled by its body of contributors, each with their own personal reason to be involved" [The Genesis Book by @Aaron van Wirdum] - superior decision making baked into Bitcoin

I find it encouraging how profoundly Bitcoin and the findings of the Austrian school of economics have penetrated our society. Statements that, a couple of years ago, were to be found only in Bitcoin circles are now printed in established newspapers and propagated by politicians. I just asked ChatGPT whether it is exaggerated to compare modern states and central banks to drug addicts; it will mainly accept the comparison as sound (with the caveat that some debt-financed state interventions are productive while the effects of drugs never are). This is what winning looks like: it is slow, subtle, but unstoppable.

Satoshi's Christmas present for me by @npub140lj...e9pc and Ernst Aklin (aklin.com)

Firefox nightly with tabs on the left - the art of finding joy in those small things 🐬

I am totally absorbed by reading and learning and am not producing enough. ⬆️ ⚙️ in 25

After an upgrade fountain stopped working. I can no longer login with my nostr account. Anyone else? Is this a GrapheneOS issue?

PV and welcome to emerging properties

PV - taken during a recent stay in Piacenza

Raging Moderates sounds awfully close to @Bugle.News #40HPW🎧 except one is serious and one is ironic - https://fountain.fm/episode/CuOJByoz3v64goiJPf52